came across the
most frustrated incident ever
throughout my entire career
a client sent me a file yesterday
to be translated into 2 languages
about 1k word
so I did immediately
spending around 4 hours
then today
final review before delivery
then he dropped me an email
with two reference files in there
which I am supposed to refer to
as reference so that
the consistency is maintained
okay fine
so I did
spending another 2 hours
feeling a little dubious
the content is 90% the same
if he should have sent this earlier
it could have saved me loads of time
or even this job shouldn’t even be assigned
in the first place
just translate the minor amendment will do
hours later
yes!! I mean no!!
he dropped another text
saying that looks like we have made a mistake
all I have to do is to translate the
red text highlighted in red
which is like less than 100 words
and asking me to reorganize the thing and
sent it back?
in order words,
erase whatever has been done
and just focus on the 10%
frustration!!
frustration!!
and more frustration!!
6 hours of work
gone to waste
which is something so
totally prevent-able
okay this is so far the worst
the worse is not to come
I hope
posted on
9/17/2015
2:05 p.m.
reedited the date
as I don’t want it to mess with
my travelogue series